After the Chinese New Year, Jiang Tian temporarily handed over the business to Hu Qiongfang.

As the second semester of the third year of junior high school began, the atmosphere in the entire Caoding Middle School became tense.

The most obvious changes are:

In the past, our class teacher, Mr. Ouyang, would just hold his large enamel teacup and secretly hide outside the window to "monitor" them.

Now, Teacher Ouyang moved the armchairs in his office directly to the back of the classroom, and he personally watched them from behind during evening study every day.

Sometimes when the math teacher and English teacher were reviewing with them at the podium, Ouyang Sihai would sit at the back and listen.

Because these two subjects are core subjects and also the "hardest hit areas" for losing points in the high school entrance examination, Ouyang Sihai dared not relax at all.

In order to save time for reviewing their lessons, they even got "special approval" from the school for lunch in their third year of junior high school - they could be the first group to go to the cafeteria to get lunch boxes and food at noon every day. This way they could avoid the peak period of getting food after school at noon and shorten the meal time to a minimum.

Jiang Tian had never suffered such hardship in her life. In less than half a month, the fat on her face that she had gained during the Chinese New Year quickly fell off, and her chin became pointed again.

However, what made her happy was that she would probably be much taller in this life than in her previous life.

After entering the third year of junior high school, Jiang Tian thought that she would not grow any taller. However, after the Chinese New Year, the weather turned warmer and she took off her big winter coat. The clothes she wore last spring were obviously too short for her!

Jiang Tian asked Hu Qiongfang to measure her with the tape measure at home, and sure enough, she had grown five centimeters taller!

I don’t know if it was because of malnutrition when she was a child in her previous life, but she has always been 1.58 meters tall until adulthood, and this was measured when she was wearing shoes.

She didn't dare to measure it when she was barefoot, for fear that her height would be revealed and her mentality would collapse on the spot.

I’m only in the third year of junior high school, but I’ve grown to 1.6 meters tall!

If it grows a little taller next year, wouldn't it be possible for it to grow to 1.65 meters?

Han Jisong heard her muttering about some "secret to growing taller" such as jumping every day, and he smiled but said nothing.

A few days later, a box of milk powder was brought from somewhere and she was asked to drink a cup every morning and evening.

Jiang Tian looked up at him and said in a sad tone, "Do you also think I'm too short?"

Han Jisong stretched out his hand, gestured between the two of them, and said with a deliberate frown: "It is indeed a little short. It needs to be taller, at least to the level of my chest."

"Otherwise it will be inconvenient to do anything in the future."

Jiang Tian immediately looked at him very warily: "What do you want to do to me?"

Han Jisong looked it up and down. His eyes were just like those of an old corn farmer in the village. He used a critical and strict look to look at the corn ears he had worked so hard to grow, and found that they were not yet fully mature. Tsk tsk…

Jiang Tian was so angry and embarrassed by his gaze that she bit Han Jisong's arm before he retracted it.

Not only did the tooth marks I imagined not be left, but I almost hurt my teeth.

"Ah~ Han Jisong, are your arms made of iron?"

Because he almost knocked out his girlfriend's teeth, the muscular Han was sent by his girlfriend to Grandpa He's house to help his grandparents dig in the vegetable garden.

After the provincial road was repaired, the small supermarket owned by the He family became bustling again.

However, the old couple are used to being frugal. No matter how much money the small supermarket makes, they are reluctant to spend their own money on vegetables. When building the house, Jiang Tian specially left several vegetable plots for them at the doorstep, which are still planted with various vegetables by the two old people.

Spring is here, and the vegetables planted in the vegetable garden last fall have almost been eaten. What we need to do today is to dig out all the leftover vegetables from last year, loosen the ground, bury some farmyard manure, and then we can plant the next crop of vegetables.

They ate the peas they planted last fall from the tips to the pea kernels. Peas are really hardy. They only planted a small patch, but they could not eat all the peas that came out.

During the Chinese New Year, every time Jiang Tian came to her grandparents' house for a meal, the dishes on the table were either fried peas with bacon, fried peas with rice and shrimp, or stewed peas with rice...

Unexpectedly, after pulling out the pea seedlings that were almost withered, Grandma He picked a whole basin of pea pods after picking them for a while!

Fortunately, these peas are already old. Grandma He said she would dry them and then fry some peas as a side dish when she cooks rice noodles for Jiang Tian.

In addition to peas, broad beans are also growing well this year.

Jiang Tian really likes to eat this. After peeling the broad bean rice, he uses it to steam bacon, stir-fry shredded pork with pickled vegetables, etc., which are all very delicious with rice.

There are also scrambled eggs with broad beans, fried broad beans with leeks, and braised pork with broad beans. Jiang Tian, ​​a broad bean fanatic, wishes he could eat broad beans every day.

Han Jisong pulled out all the old vegetables, radishes and other ingredients in the recipe.

Grandpa He took a kitchen knife and a chopping board, sat aside, and chopped the radishes and vegetables into pieces. After cooking them with rice bran, he could take them to the backyard to feed the pigs.

Thinking of the three little black pigs in the backyard, Jiang Tian couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart.

Thinking back to the time when she carefully designed this new Chinese-style courtyard for the two elders, she never thought of letting them raise pigs!

As a result, after the two elders moved in, this beautiful little courtyard began to change slowly...

On one side of the yard, Grandpa He built a chicken coop with the broken bricks left over from building his house, as well as the discarded wooden boards and bamboo strips from other people's houses, and raised a dozen chickens in it.

These chickens are quite hardworking and lay several eggs every day. Grandpa and grandma can’t eat all of them themselves, so most of the eggs they save end up in Jiang Tian’s stomach.

Behind the yard, there was a small piece of open space, which was only about ten feet wide, and it was also fully utilized by my grandparents.

I don’t know where grandpa picked up so many broken bricks, but he actually built a long pigpen in the backyard!

After the Chinese New Year, their family went to the market in the countryside. Thinking that the market in town would be lively, they took Grandpa He and Grandma along.

As a result, not long after they arrived there, the two old people were fascinated by a stall selling piglets.

Grandpa He squatted there and picked for a long time. He originally planned to buy only one piglet, but he didn't expect that all the piglets in the litter were fat. Grandpa He couldn't bear to give up any of them, and finally bought three piglets.

Since the addition of these three little ancestors, Jiang Tian has assumed part of the responsibility of feeding them——

Every day when I went to inspect the fast food restaurant, I would bring back a bucket of slop for the three little pigs.

After school started, Jiang Tian didn’t have time to go to the store every day, so the old couple went to the store every other day to pick up a load of slop and buy a few bags of rice bran, mixed with the leftover vegetables at home. In less than two months, the three little black pigs had gained a lot of weight!

In addition to the chicken coop and pigpen, the old couple did not waste the open space outside the courtyard wall. They planted a circle of broad beans outside at some point.

Grandpa said that after we finish eating these broad beans, we should plant some loofahs, gourds, pumpkins, lentils, etc. near the wall, so that we will have enough vegetables to eat at home in the summer.

Jiang Tian silently wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

If she had known this, she would not have told her grandfather that she loved to eat roasted chicken with dried gourd, loofah meatball soup, and fried pumpkin vines and lentils with shredded pork...

Grandpa and grandma planted all the vegetables she liked!